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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The reality is that a wonderful college education is available in the United States at reasonable prices to most students, our university system is the envy of the world. Some of the options are very high cost, but not all.[/quote]

NP.  I agree, but here is my frustration:  when you are on a hiring panel, will you fairly consider someone who spent the first two years at NOVA and then graduated from Mason because that was all she could afford without debt?  Or will you pick the Harvard/Yale/Wellesley grad who had the option to go to Harvard/Yale/Wellesley without debt because her parents were high earners?  Be honest.  We all know how this goes.  I practice law, and I absolutely know the real answer to this one.

That is why OP is upset.[/quote]

[b]Elite schools might give a slight advantage for someone's first job, but after that majority of employers care about your experience and references from your job. [/b]

Law might be slightly different, but I find it a bit odd that you care about undergrad rather than where the employee went to LAW SCHOOL.  Harvard Law takes kids with a variety of undergrad experience---it is definately not limited to T20 schools/SLAC. Here's the list for this year's first year law students at Harvard:  https://hls.harvard.edu/jdadmissions/apply-to-harvard-law-school/jdapplicants/hls-profile-and-facts/undergraduate-institutions/

I see a wide variety of schools represented, demonstrating that attending even a SUNY or Cal State U, Northridge can get you into Harvard Law.

Personally, I wouldn't want to be employed at a law firm that cares so much about status that does NOT matter---it matters where you went to Law School and what you did while attending law school.

I think the list of Harvard Law first year student's undergrad demonstrates really well that where you go does not matter that much.  The avg SAT at Cal State U Northridge is 1030 and the WGPA is 3.3----not exactly above average stats, yet somehow someone (obviously smart) attended there (likely because that's what they could afford) and is now attending Harvard Law.

I would much rather hire someone who attends a school they can afford (even if they are "much smarter and could get into an elite school") and does great things while attending and is motivated to find a way to the nations top law school[/quote]

I hate when people say this. My first job out of my Big 10 flagship paid $35k and was for a crappy local company. The experience I then had for my second job sucked and was hard to leverage into more money. While you’re right that experience is important, you don’t just make experience out of thin air. [/quote]

At that point it’s about what the person does.  You have to work to market yourself [/quote]

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